Yanzhe Fu

since 2025: postdoc at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

2023–2025: postdoc at LMU Munich with funding of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

 

Educational background

2017–2022: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); PhD in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy
2013–2017: China University of Geosciences (Beijing); Bachelor in Natural Resources Prospecting Engineering

 

Research Interests
Fossil insects


Awards and honours
2023: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellowship for Postdocs
2021: UCAS-BHP Billiton Scholarship by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2021: Chu-Li-Yuet-Wah Prize for Outstanding Doctoral by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Publications (examples)
 

2022
Fu Y., Cai C., Chen P., Huang D.* (2022): The earliest fossil evidence of brood care in insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20220447. (NI)
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2022): The first Archijassidae from the late Triassic of China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Membracoidea). Palaeoentomology, 5(6): 599–605.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2022): The first maguviopseids (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Prosboloidea) from the Triassic of China. Palaeoentomology, 5(1): 76–80.
Fu Y., Gao J., Huang D.* (2022): Revision of the genus Sinogranulus (Hemiptera, Granulidae) with description of a new species from the Middle Triassic of China. Palaeoentomology, 5(1): 81–89.
Tihelka E., Li L., Fu Y., Su Y., Huang D., Cai C.* (2022): Reply to: Pelretes vivificus was a pollinator of Cretaceous angiosperms. Nature Plants, 8: 41–44. (NI)
Huang D., Fu Y., Lian X., Nel, A.* (2022): The first Chinese Protohymenidae (Palaeoptera: Megasecoptera). Historical Biology, 34(3): 458–461.
Huang D., Hakim M., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2022): A new sternorrhynchan genus and species from the Triassic of China probably relate to protopsyllidioid (Insecta, Hemiptera). Insects, 13: 592.
Wang Y., Nel, A., Fu Y., Su Y., Cai C., Liu Y., Gao J., Huang D.* (2022): New insect fossils discovered from the Lower Jurassic Sangonghe Formation at the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang, NW China. Palaeoentomology, 5(2): 183–194.
Gao H., Xu G., Fu Y., Cai C., Tang Z., Zheng S., Zhao X., Gao J., Huang D.* (2022): Age constraints on the fossil fishes (Mesoclupea-Paraclupea assemblage) from the Lower Cretaceous of Zhejiang Province, South China. Cretaceous Research, 138: 105263.
Huang D., Lian X., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2022): The first Chinese representative of the Cenozoic hawker dragonfly Oligaeschna (Odonata: Aeshnidae) from the Eocene of North Tibet. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2071713
Huang D., Lian X., Liu Q., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2022): A new calopterygid damselfly (Odonata, Zygoptera) from the Oligocene Ningming Basin, Guangxi, South China. Palaeoentomology, 5(2): 113–119.
Huang D., Fu Y., Lian X., Gao J., Nel, A.* (2022): The oldest malachite damselfly (Odonata: Synlestidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of China. Cretaceous Research, 129: 105023.

 

2021
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2021): A new fossil cercopoid from the middle Jurassic Ordos and Jiyuan basins, northern China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha). Historical Biology, 33(10): 2025–2030.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2021): New data on Jurassic Procercopidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from northeastern China. Geological Journal, 56: 1291–1298.
Fu Y., Azar D., Huang D.* (2021): The first Dysmorphoptilidae from the Middle Triassic of China (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Prosbolomorpha). Historical Biology, 32(12): 3506–3512.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2021): A new species of Sinoalidae from the topmost Late Jurassic Daohugou Bed (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha). Palaeoentomology, 4(1): 34–38.
Fu Y., Szwedo J., Huang D.* (2021): A new sinoalid froghopper in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Sinoalidae). Cretaceous Research, 125: 104841.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2021): New mimarachnids in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha). Cretaceous Research, 119: 104682.
Fu Y., Li Y., Su Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2021): Application of confocal laser scanning microscopy to the study of amber bioinclusions. Palaeoentomology, 4(3): 266–278.
Tihelka E., Li L., Fu Y., Su Y., Huang D., Cai C.* (2021): Angiosperm pollinivory in a Cretaceous beetle. Nature Plants, 7: 445–451. (NI)
Liu Q., Zeng G., Lian X., Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2021): A new amber outcrop from the Oligocene Nanning Basin of Guangxi, southern China. Palaeoentomology, 4(4): 326–330.
Hakim M., Azar D.*, Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2021): A new cormopsocid from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Psocodea: Trogiomorpha: Cormopsocidae). Palaeoentomology, 4(2): 178–185.

 

2020
Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2020): First Mesozoic procercopids in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Geological Magazine, 157: 506–512.
Fu Y., Azar D., Huang D.* (2020): A new species of the extinct family Minlagerrontidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 107: 107240.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): Jurocercopis grandis Wang & Zhang, 2009 from the Jiyuan Basin and Daohugou beds of northern China and its morphological revision (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Cercopoidea). Palaeoentomology, 3(1): 87–95.
Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2020): A new palaeontinid (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northeastern China and its biogeographic significance. Journal of Paleontology, 94(3): 513–520.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): The enigmatic arthropod Duraznovis gallegoi from the Late Triassic of Argentina is a cicadomorphan head (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Palaeoentomology, 3(3): 245–247.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): New data on fossil mimarachnids (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Fulgoroidea) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeoentomology, 3(3): 317–331.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): Revision of the genus Jiaotouia (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea) with description of a new species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 115: 104558.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): Sinomorphoptila incompleta gen. et sp. nov., a new dysmorphoptilid from the Middle Permian of China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Prosbolomorpha). Palaeoentomology, 3(4): 361–365.
Huang D., Fu Y., Lian X., Nel, A.* (2020): Sinaspidoneura magnifica nov. gen., nov. sp., first Chinese Caloneurodea (Insecta: Archaeorthoptera). Geobios, 63: 33–37.
Huang D., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2020): The first Chinese representative of the Jurassic damsel-dragonfly genus Hypsothemis (Odonata: Isophlebioidea: Campterophlebiidae). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 44: 99–103.
Cai C., Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): A large artematopodid beetle (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Artematopodidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its systematic position. Cretaceous Research, 105: 103986.

 

2019
Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2019): First hairy cicadas in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Tettigarctidae). Cretaceous Research, 93: 285–291.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): New sinoalids (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from Middle to Upper Jurassic strata at Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 43: 246–256.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): A new species of Luanpingia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Sinoalidae) from the Middle–Upper Jurassic Daohugou Bed. Palaeoentomology, 2(5): 441–445.
Fu Y., Szwedo J., Azar D., Huang D* (2019): A second species of Dachibangus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Mimarachnidae) in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 103: 104170.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): New sinoalids in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Cretaceous Research, 104: 104187.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): A new sinoalid assemblage from the topmost Late Jurassic Daohugou Bed indicating the evolution and ecological significance of Juroala Chen & Wang, 2019 (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) during more than one million years. Palaeoentomology, 2(4): 350–362.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): New Early Cretaceous hylicellids (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from Southwest Beijing, China. Palaeoentomology, 2: 17–21.
Cai C.*, Clarke D., Yin Z., Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): A specialized preycapture apparatus in mid-Cretaceous rove beetles. Current Biology, 29: R105–R119. (NI)
Huang D., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2019): The first amber stenophlebiid damsel-dragonfly (Odonata, Epiproctophora, Stenophlebiidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 94: 40–44.
Huang D., Fu Y., Nel A.* (2019): A possible true Mesozoic Gomphidae s. str. from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Odonata: Anisoptera). Cretaceous Research, 95: 341–345.
Huang D.*, Gao J., Dong C., Su Y., Fu Y., Li X., Liu Y., Cai C. (2019): Late Triassic fossil insects from the Laohugou Formation of northern China (Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province). Palaeoentomology, 2(2): 183–191.
Huang D.*, Su Y., Fu Y., Gao J., Liu Y., Cai C. (2019): A new Early Jurassic insect outcrop in Xinjiang, northwestern China and its stratigraphic significance. Palaeoentomology, 2(5): 430–435.

 

2018
Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.*. (2018): A new fossil sinoalid species from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou beds (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 42: 94–100.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2018): New fossil genus and species of Sinoalidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from the Middle to Upper Jurassic deposits in northeastern China. European Journal of Entomology, 115: 127–133.
Fu Y., Huang D.*, Engel M. (2018): A new species of the extinct family Procercopidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from the Jurassic of northeastern China. Palaeoentomology, 1(1): 51–57.
Huang D.*, Fu Y., Gao J., Nel, A.* (2018): A new damsel-dragonfly of the small family Selenothemistidae from the earliest Late Jurassic of China (Odonata: Isophlebioptera). Palaeoentomology, 1(1): 37–41.
Huang D.*, Cai C., Fu Y., Su Y. (2018): The Middle–Late Jurassic Yanliao entomofauna. Palaeoentomology, 1(1): 3–31.
Mao Y., Liang K., Su Y., Li J., Rao X., Zhang H., Xia F., Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2018): Various amberground marine animals on Burmese amber with discussions on its age. Palaeoentomology, 1(1): 91–103.